How to run away and join the circus in 10 easy steps

[NancyNGA]

Runaway (The Runaway Boy and Clown)
Norman Rockwell, Life Magazine Cover, June, 1, 1922.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]

You get to make new friends!layful:

 

[Meanderer]

Step right up!

 

[NancyNGA]

The lonely life of a clown

 

[NancyNGA]

Not a very happy looking bunch, are they?

 

[Aunt Bea]

They never forget your birthday!!!

 

[Pappy]

 

[NancyNGA]

Elephant War Workers - From Lord Sanger's Circus At Horley, Osfordshire, England (1917)

 

[Meanderer]

Surrounded by Wild Elephants in 4k 360

 

[Meanderer]

Circus Family

 

[Meanderer]

charlie chaplin the circus

 

[Pappy]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Pappy]

At our county fair, I paid a dime to see a man eating fish. That’s what I got...a man was eating fish. I guess they know a “sucker” when they see one.

 

[Meanderer]

Bea, those little Circus rascals, were just the ticket!layful:

 

[Pappy]

Another man eating fish story.....

 

[Meanderer]

Another man-eating fish story....?

 

[HiDesertHal]

Burt Lancaster actually spent some time as a Circus Aerialist before getting into acting.

This is why he's so good in the movie "Trapeze", with Tony Curtis and Gina Lollabrigida.

Hal

 

[Meanderer]

Circus of the Stars

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Pappy]

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]

Step right up!

 

[Meanderer]

Off To Join The World (The Circus Song)